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Which of the following sentences describes polysemy in the best way ?
(^) The pen is mightier than the sword.
(8) Yes, I love those. I ate a whole box on Sunday.
(C) Computer chips are an important new technology.
(D) The bookstore has some new titles in linguistics.

A word of one type (usually a noun) is reduced to form another word of a different type

(usually a verb) is called :
(A) Conversion (8) Backformation
(C) Blending (D) Derivation

How do you group the following languages into pairs which are closely related from a
historical point of view: Romanian, Czech, Dutch, French, Gaelic, German, Russian,
Welsh ?

(A) Romanian and French; Czech and Russian; Dutch and German; Gaelic and
Welsh
(B) German and French; Romanian and Dutch; Czech and Gaelic; Russian and
Welsh
(C) Russian and German; Welsh and French; Romanian and Gaelic; Czech and
Dutch
(D) Czech and Russian; German and Romanian; Welsh and French; Gaelic and
Dutch

The final sounds of ‘laugh’ and ‘cough’ and the initial sound of ‘photo’ are examples of

(^) Dentals (8) Alveo- palatals
(0 Velars 0) Labiodentals

The terms related to titular rankings of the nobility like Duke, Marquis, Viscount, Baron
are direct borrowings from
(൧) French (8) Latin
(C) Greek (D) Scandinavia

Many of the common English words have two or more forms of pronunciation, one
strong form and one or more weak forms. This phenomenon is termed as

(^) Gradation (8) Transition

(C) Calibration (2) Syncopation

Which of the following aspects points to the direct method of teaching ?
(^) word is the teaching unit, not sentence
(B) mother tongue dominates, not the target language
(6) It makes direct bond between thought and expression
(D) 1 enriches the learner’s vocabulary easily

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